Who else thinks Jarek is the worst?
KEENA"Now it is time to do something about that bodyguard," Jarek tells me as he grabs me by the hand and drags me out of my bedroom. He doesn't give me time to protest. Jarek is walking so quickly that I stumble over my feet trying to keep up with him. Before I know it I am standing outside of my father's office. My palms are sweating and my chest is pounding. I don't want to do this. Jarek lets go of my hand and wipes his hand on his jeans. "Why are you so sweaty?" He grumbles angrily before knocking on my father's office door. "I am just nervous," I admit. "You want to make me happy don't you," he hisses at me and my heart sinks. I do want to make him happy but not like this. Impatiently, Jarek knocks loudly again on my father's office door. This time my father gruffly yells, "enter." Jarek swings my father's office door open and drags me inside. Tears are already beginning to prickle at the corner of my eyes. My father lifts his head and scowls as he looks fr
JAREK Wiping the beads of sweat from my forehead, I head for the front door of the royal mansion. I should have known better than to try and challenge the Alpha King, but I know that Keena will buckle under her father's pressure and tell him the truth. If she tells him the truth it will ruin any chance that I have at getting her away from the Lycan City and back to my pack. I know that is what my father had in mind when he told me to make things right. He wants to use the Princess for leverage to get the amulet. Kane is pacing back and forth in my mind. He has grown soft when it comes to the Princess and doesn't want to follow our father's orders. I have to keep reminding him that it is just the mate bond making him feel this way. Once she accepts the rejection we will be free to find a Luna that is worthy of the title. Not some wolfless freak. 'You were too rough with her,' Kane huffs in my house. "We need to be kind to our mate.' 'She is only our mate until we get
KEENAKayla and I flop down on my bed. As we turn towards one another, I let out a sigh of relief. I have wanted to see Kayla for days now. "I've missed you," I whisper to her. "I have missed you so much." "Not as much as I have missed you," Kayla says as she wraps her arms around me. "Now dish. What is going on between you and Jarek?" Rolling over onto my back I hold up my hand that Jarek practically crushed in my father's office. Bruises are beginning to form beneath my skin. How do I tell my best friend that my mate accepted me but I think he only wants to hurt me in return? Kayla looks up at my hand and gasps out loudly. "What happened to your hand?""Jarek got a little too excited in my father's office and squeezed it a little too hard." I don't know why I am lying to Kayla. I think that, maybe, the truth is too difficult to say out loud. "I think he forgets that I am not a werewolf." "Keena," Kayla whispers my name. "This looks like more than just a tight squ
KEENA Beep. Beep. Beep. That is the only sound that I can hear. The sound of constant beeping creeps into my mind even while I try to sleep. Groaning to myself I try to roll over but my body is stiff and unmoving. I try to open my eyes but it is useless. My eyelids won't budge. I try to let out a sigh but something is lodged in my throat. Swallow. I have to swallow. As I swallow the feeling in my throat doesn't go away. Panic begins to fill my soul as I try to escape the dark prison that I have found myself in. "She is too powerful," suddenly, Sister Edith's voice is in my mind. "Her powers need to be bound. She is going to hurt someone." "Perhaps you are right," my mother's voice breaks through. "She has put her friend in danger twice now. Through no fault of her own." "Do you know what set her off this time?" Sister Edith asks. "I cannot be sure but it would appear that her mate betrayed the mate bond," my mother's voice sounds angry and sad. "He
KEENAStanding in the closet I finger through the clothes that are hanging on the "to wear when I am not around" side of the closet. Letting out a frustrated sigh I grab my cutest pair of black sweats. Looking down at the runes that now cover my forearms I know that I want to have them covered. I wrinkle my nose at all of the oversized sweatshirts and refuse to put them on. Grabbing a cropped sweatshirt from the other side of the closet and I slip it over my head. Jarek can't be too angry at my choice of clothing. I am covered except for a small bit of my stomach that is barely visible. I walk down stairs and see Ward waiting for me at the kitchen table. He offers me a bright smile but I can only frown back at him. "Ward," I say quietly. "I can't let you come to school with me today." Ward's face falls but he doesn't protest. "I know. Your father explained the situation." "I am so sorry," I say with embarrassment. "It is okay, Princess," Ward says as he gets to his
KEENA Jarek releases me from the wall and grabs ahold of my hand dragging me back to the front of the building. Just as we are about to round the corner of the building a loud snarl from behind us grabs our attention. Jarek and I both turn around and see two large wolves stalking towards us. Unlike the rogues that fought at the mansion a few nights before these two don't have matted fur and they don't smell like rotting flesh. That can mean only one thing. These are pack members. Jerking me by the hand, Jarek races towards the parking lot with the wolves quickly on our heels. I dare to look behind us as we run and there is no one outside any longer. The clock must have chimed for the first class to start. "Move faster," Jarek hisses at me as he runs to his red sports car. He flings the passenger side open and shoves me inside before running to the drivers side. Without hesitation Jarek reaches over me and buckles my seatbelt. He then puts his car in drive and peels
KEENAJarek's massive form looms over me but I refuse to cower in fear. "I told you not to fucking run," he glowers at me. "Fuck you," I spit back at him. The wolf that still has a hold of my ankle bites down harder and I hiss out in pain. I try to pull my ankle out of its mouth but the wolf only closes his mouth harder around my foot. "Now, now," Jarek tuts with his mouth. "That's not how a Princess is supposed to talk." Pulling a pair of handcuffs out of his back pocket, Jarek walks towards me with an angry look on his face. Bending down he tries to grab ahold of my hands but before he can grab my hands I kick him in the knee with my free leg. Jarek stumbles backwards and almost falls but he catches himself before he hits the ground. "Listen here, you, Little Bitch," he growls at me. "You are coming with me." "I would rather die," I scream as loudly as I can but there doesn't seem to be anyone around to hear. "That can be arranged," Jarek says with a smirk on his
WARD Keena's classes have been over for more than an hour and she still isn't home yet. I am pacing back and forth in my bedroom trying to think about anything that is not Keena. The King told me to watch her but keep her distance, but I was not to follow her to school. Faris and her mate will be watching over her while she is in school. Her mate, it makes me angry just thinking about that asshole being her mate. To be honest, I have loved Keena from the moment that I laid eyes on her two years ago. I had just joined the Royal Guard and was assigned to be one of the body guards at her and her brother's sixteenth birthday party. It was a massive party with every lycan from Lycan City in attendance, along with several Alpha's and their families from packs around the United States. Keena was escorted down the stairs by her father in an emerald dress that matched her eyes perfectly. Her hair was pulled up into an intricate updo with strands that hung down and framed her face.